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Letters Patent No. 80,032, dated vJuly 14, 1868.

.IMPROVEMENT IN DRESSING BARRELS.

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T0 ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it known that I,.CBARLS TITUS, of Union, in' the county of Knox, and State of'Maine, have invented a new and usefulMachine for Dressing and Crozing the Staves of a Barrel; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully'dcscribed in the following specilication, and represented in the accompanying drawings,` of which- Figure 1 is a top,view, Y

Figure i?, a, front elevation,and'

Figure 3 a longitudinal section of'i't.

Machines'commonly employed for erozing and ehamfering a stave at either or both of its ends, are generally designed to 'operateion aisinglestave at a time, whereas my machine is intended to chamfer and croze at one and the same-time an entire set o'f staves when set up and hoped, for being made into a barrel.

In the drawings, A denotes a cutter-head, whose upper part, a, has the form of a eonic frustum, such head being fixed on the upper end of avvertieal shaft, B, supported by and so as to be capable of being revolved withinl a frame, C, and by a belt going around a pulley, c, fixed onsuch shaft.l l i The lower part, 6, ofthe cutter-head is a circular disk, having a diameter somewhat larger than that ofthe base of the part a, and'eontaining one or more cutters, d, arranged within it, and 'so as to project vabove its upper surface. The two parts a and b may be in one piece of metal.

An annulus or ring, D, supported by posts E E ofthe frame C, surrounds the part a coneentrically,'and is for centralizing the collection of stares, and properlypresenting and guiding it tothe cutters f theentter-head.

There are arranged on the periphery oi' the parte of the cutter-head two or 'any other suitable number of cutters, e e, whose o'iliec is to chamfer the set of-staves, cach cut-ter being placed and fixed in a suitable throat made in the-cutter-head. v

Arranged in the cutter-head, andso applied thereto as to be capable ofbeing moved radially therein, are two carriages or sliders, F G, one of which supports a hollowing-eutteigf, and the other a crozing-cutter, g.

Figui-ed is a diagram, showing an edge view oi" thcend portion of a stave as formed by my said machine.

vThe -cutters e e produce the ehamfer t' Z of the Vstave. The cutter f forms the groove k l, and thc cutter y makes thecroze m.

Each of the sliders F G has applied-to it one of two bent'lcvcrs, n rt', whose fulcra are supported by arms o, projecting down from the cutter-head.. I l' The shorter arms of the two levers ln, n are jointed to two collars or tubes, p g, arranged concentrically on the shaft B, and applied thereto so as 4to oc capable of being lmoved vertically therein, Each of the said collars has one ot' two treadlesfor levers, 7 s, applied to it for moving it upward, a spring t, to each treadle serving to'cicct the downward movement oflthe collar. By an attendant putting his foot on eitherof the treadles and depressing it, he will cause the cutter-carriage F or G, connected therewith, tobe advanced so as =to bring its cutter into action while the cutter-headmay oe in revolution. The shaft B revolves with the collars, which revolve in their trcadles.

After the staves have been set up and hooped, the series is to be placed endwise within the guide-ring D,

end upon the bevellcdicdge'f the cutter-head, Such head being supposed to be in revolution, its eharnfering#V cutters will chamfer all the stares preparatory to theirbeing groovcd and crozed.` After the eharnfering ofthe staves may have been carriedonso that they may meet the edge-cutters of the lower part of the head, such edge-cutters will reduce or dress oft' the ends of the staves. After lthis, the grooving-cutter should be projected so as to cut into and groove the stavcs, and, finally, the'crozing-cutter should be advanced so `as to form the croze in them.

I make no claim to any thing, combination, or arrangement as described in either of the UnitedStates patents, Nos. 11,894, 41,248, and 41,249, the cutter-carriers bf my machine being operated by treadles, collars, and bent levers, arranged in a peculiar manner with-respect to each other and with the cutter-head and its shaft, the same rendering the machine simple in constru'ction, and easily operated by an attendant, as circum- `carriers being'providcd with cutting and a guide-ring, D, as set forth.

stances may require.

I claim therarrangement and combination of the separate levers or treadles r s, the collars p q, and bent levers n n', with one AanotherV and the sliaft-B,the cutter-head A, and the cutter-carrier E Gr, such head and CHARLES 'introsA Witnesses:

R. E. EDDY, F. P. Hte, Jr.' 

